I found this chair on my way back from a jog in the meadows. It was sitting by a skip across the road from my flat, so I picked it up, hauled it up the stairs, and now it resides in my room.

It has a lot of character to it – visibly used, worn and battered over time. It’s an out of fashion style, the kind of furniture you’d find in an old pub, with its worn-down dark varnished wood and moss green, plastic-coated cushion that’s bursting apart. Little flecks of creamy white paint are visible on the frame, which makes me assume this chair has assisted a painter/decorator at some point in its time. Maybe this chair has had multiple homes before I took it, or just one which it watched shift and adapt over time.

Here’s where I found it, the skip is no longer there:

and here’s a list of things I could do with it:

drop it out the window, deconstruct it, add objects to it, make it serve a purpose other than it’s intended one, take it for a hike, use it incorrectly, video it, burn it, restore it, post it, eat it, use it to make music, leave it somewhere and see what happens (return it to the streets and continue the cycle), give it personhood, give it a social media presence, grow something in it

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